Alien Influence

by Anne Rose, Jemima & Carissa

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<Anne3> Once upon a time...
<Anne3> Captain Janeway's commbadge beeped. "Captain, we've got an M-Class planet on long range sensors," Chakotay's voice announced.
<Anne3> "I'll be right there," she replied and headed to the bridge.

<Carissa> She walked towards the nearest turbolift and ordered it to the bridge. She was standing there waiting for the doors to open. Suddenly the lift stopped and she was flung to the wall.

<Jemima> She hit her commbadge and barked, "Report!"  All she got for her effort was static.

<Anne3> She looked herself over and aside from a nasty bump on the head, she was fine.  'Soon,' she told herself, 'soon they'll notice I haven't arrived on the bridge.'

<Carissa> Chakotay was sitting on the bridge waiting for her. He kept looking at the chronometer to see how long it was since he asked her to the bridge. 7min. Worried he asked the computer her location.

<Jemima> "Captain Janeway is not aboard Voyager," the computer responded.  Panicked, Chakotay ordered Harry to run a diagnostic on the internal sensors and asked the computer for the Captain's last known location.

<Anne3> Just then, "Torres to Chakotay."
He answered her, "Yes, Lieutenant?"
"Commander, we've got system failures all over the ship.  Nothing major, but repair crews are going to be spread thin."

<Carissa> "Lieutenant, are the turbo lifts malfunctioning?" He asked.
"Let me check. Yes, some of them are. There's one stuck between deck 2 and 3 and was on it's way to the bridge." She answered him.

<Jemima> "How long until the turbolifts are repaired?" Chakotay asked Torres.  He heard a string of Klingon curses in the background, but B'Elanna didn't answer him.

<Anne3> "Ensign Kim, scan the turbolift for lifesigns.  I want to know if the Captain is in there," Chakotay ordered.  Harry looked at the reading from his console and grimaced.
<Anne3> "The Captain's in there alright, Sir, but she's injured and possibly unconscious."

<Carissa> "Are transporters operational Harry?" He asked. Harry tried locking onto her but couldn't. "I can't get her. Transporters are down."

<Anne3> (darn, I was hoping to beam him into the lift. hehehe)

<Carissa> (I was going too but decided not too)

<Anne3> (I was mostly kidding ;-)

<Jemima> "Tuvok, you have the conn," Chakotay said, and opened the turbolift control panel.  He jimmied the doors open and began to descend the turbolift shaft.
        <Jemima> (8), <Anne3> (ooh, hehehe)

<Anne3> Paris dashed from his station to the turbolift doors, and looked down at Chakotay who was now trying to open the hatch in the roof of the lift.  "Commander, you'll need this," Tom said, as he dropped a small portable med-kit down to him.

<Carissa> "Thanks Tom" He said. Chakotay got the roof open and peered in to see if she was all right and not in his way. He couldn't see her. He jumped down and looked around and found her slumped against the wall unconscious.

<Jemima> He ran the medical tricorder over her, then pulled a hypospray out of the kit and injected her with a stimulant.  The Captain opened one eye and peered at her First Officer.

<Anne3> "Turn the light back off! I don't have school today.  I'm going back to sleep!" she muttered and tried to slide down to the floor.

<Carissa> "Computer lights off." He asked the computer. They turned off. He was glad something was working. "Kathryn wake up. I have coffee." He said trying to tempt her.

<Jemima> "What's coffee?" she asked.  "Who is Kathryn?" she added sleepily.  "Toomee, you're acting very strange this morning."

<Anne3> Chakotay ran the tricorder over her again and considered another hypospray.  Meanwhile, Paris noticed the darkness in the lift, "Paris to Torres, we just lost lights in the lift.  Can you do something about that?"  "Let me check, Tom." After a moment, "Uh Tom, Chakotay ordered the lights out."

<Carissa> Tom responded to that. "Well then, I guess I'll leave them to it. Give them a bit of privacy." Then he heard a noise.
"Tom get your butt down here now." Chakotay told him.
        <Anne3> (lol)

<Jemima> "Uh, I don't know how B'Elanna would feel about that, Chakotay," Tom answered.  "I'm sure you can handle whatever it is..."
        <Anne3> (ROFL)

<Anne3> "Paris, put your adolescent mind on hold for a moment!  Kathryn is delirious.  I want someone with some medical training to look at her."

<Carissa> Tom put his mind on hold and jumped down and landed with a thud in the lift. He asked Chakotay a question. "How is she delirious?"
"She doesn't know what coffee is. Doesn't know who Kathryn is and thinks I am someone called Toomee. Delirious enough for you Tom?"

<Jemima> "I'd say she's possessed."  Tom took the medical tricorder from Chakotay and ran it over the snoring Captain.  "She's showing some mighty strange brainwaves, Commander."

<Anne3> "Is she in any immediate danger?" Chakotay asked.  As Tom's eyes adjusted, he noticed for the first time how Chakotay was cradling the Captain in his lap, and gently smoothing her hair.  Chakotay's face was drawn and had concern etched all over it.

<Carissa> "I can't say for sure. We need equipment from sickbay and the Doctors help." Tom told Chakotay.

<Jemima> "Can we move her?" he asked Tom.
<Jemima> The medic responded, "It should be OK if she goes under her own power."

<Anne3> Chakotay rolled his eyes at Tom.  "That's going to be a little difficult with the lift and transporters off-line."
<Anne3> "Chakotay to Torres, we need to get the Captain to sickbay.  I need some options, now."

<Carissa> "Chakotay you could lift her out the top. Get Tom to climb out, you boost her up, then Tom leans down through the roof and gives you a hand up. Then you can climb to the next deck and there will be assistance to help you get her to sickbay." Torres said.

<Jemima> "We'll have to wake her up again," Chakotay told Tom.  "If she asks for Toomee, that seems to be me."

<Anne3> Tom pressed the hypospray to her neck, and her eyes fluttered open.  She looked around for a minute trying to understand what was going on.

<Carissa> "Toomee what's going on?" She asked in a frightened voice.
"We're going to take you to safety." Chakotay told her. He was running his fingers across her head and into her hair.
"What are you doing?" Kathryn asked him.

<Jemima> Chakotay pulled his hand back as though he'd been burned.  "Nothing," he reassured her.  "We need to climb through that hatch."  He pointed to the ceiling.

<Anne3> Kathryn stood, with Chakotay's help, and managed to climb up onto the roof of the lift.

<Carissa> Tom helped her stay put and then reached a hand to help Chakotay up. Chakotay got up and said "Tom you will take the lead to get us to the next deck, Kathryn will follow and I'll be behind."

<Jemima> "Who's this Kathryn you keep talking about, Toomee?" the erstwhile Captain asked.
<Jemima> "Exnay on the Athrynkay," Tom muttered to Chakotay.

<Anne3> Chakotay looked at her, "Kathryn is a friend of mine.  Why don't you introduce yourself to Tom?  He's also my friend."
        <Carissa> (great, I have to think of a name), <Jemima> (lol), <Anne3> (lol)

<Carissa> "I am Mitsui. Pleased to meet you Tom." She said to Tom. Chakotay sighed in relief. He knew her new name.

<Anne3> "We live just a little ways from here.  Toomee and I were going back home when something happened," Mitsui said.  "There was a big noise and I then I woke up here."

<Carissa> Tom asked, "How long have you known Toomee for?" This got Tom a look that could kill from Chakotay.

<Jemima> "Oh, only a few weeks.  It was an arranged marriage," the Captain answered.
<Jemima> Chakotay's jaw dropped, and Tom did his best not to laugh.

<Anne3> Chakotay took a deep breath and relaxed.  He wondered why Mitsui had fixated on him, and then he sensed it - a quiet presence in the back of his mind.  Kathryn had been unconscious when the accident happened, maybe that accounted for Mitsui's more active presence.

<Carissa> Maybe Mitsui was what Kathryn wanted to be but couldn't and the accident helped show her feelings or something.

<Jemima> Or so Tom took the situation.
<Jemima> Chakotay, however, tried to investigate the alien presence in his mind.  Unfortunately, the only thing on Toomee's mind was his recent honeymoon.

<Anne3> Chakotay tried to get past those memories, but Toomee was too rattled by the accident to think about anything but Mitsui.  He needed to get them to sickbay, and hope the Doctor could solve their problem.

<Jemima> Tom watched Chakotay's face carefully.  He could have sworn he was blushing.  Suddenly, Chakotay froze in his tracks, looking confused.

<Anne3> He wrapped his arms around Kathryn and hugged her close, "Mitsui, I was so worried about you.  I didn't know where you were, or if you were OK."
        <Carissa> (wowzers. hmm thinks a bit)
        <Anne3> (I'm thinking we just met Toomee)

<Carissa> "I'm ok. Just a bump on the head." She said into his chest. She wrapped her arms around him and they stayed that way just hugging each other. Tom was confused as hell.

<Jemima> He pulled out the tricorder again and scanned the Commander.  His neural readings resembled the Captain's.  "Uh, excuse me, Mitsui.  The doctor is this way."

<Anne3> Tom noticed they weren't following him and turned around.  There were his Captain and First Officer locked in a passionate kiss.  He tried to interrupt them, but wasn't able to get their attention.

<Carissa> "Paris to the Doctor. I need help. Get down here ASAP." Tom said over the comm. He was in trouble. Tom looked around to see if anyone was around and saw someone head the other direction. 'Oh great.' Thought Tom

<Jemima> On second thought, this was really a case for Tuvok - if anyone could separate the Captain and the Commander, it was the interfering Vulcan.  "Paris to Tuvok," he called.

<Anne3> "Tuvok here, what is it Lieutenant Paris?"
<Anne3> "The Captain and Commander Chakotay are under alien influence.  I need your help immediately."
<Anne3> "I'll be right there Lieutenant.  Tuvok out."

<Carissa> Tom just started pacing around them from all the anxiety. He didn't know what to do. He hoped Tuvok would hurry up. "Paris to Tuvok. Hurry up! They are enjoying what they are doing." He told Tuvok as calmly as he could. "Just what are they doing Lieutenant?" "Kissing in the corridors!" Tom said.

<Jemima> Despite the broken turbolift and dysfunctional transporters, Tuvok reached Tom's location in record time.  "What is your assessment of the situation?" he asked the medic before attempting to disrupt the kissyface.
        <Jemima> (tag anne), <Anne3> (ooops, what a time to fall asleep on the keyboard!)
        <Jemima> (lol), <Anne3> (ow, my shoulder is sore now)
        <Jemima> (lol)

<Anne3> Janeway/Mitsui looked at them when she came up for air.  "No need to get all worried about Kathryn and Chakotay.  Just drop us off at home, and they'll be good as new.  In the mean time, we'll be waiting to hear from you in there."  Mitsui indicated the Captain's quarters.

<Carissa> Mitsui lead Toomee to Kathryn's quarters. Tom's jaw was dropped and Tuvok was thinking how illogical it was.

<Jemima> "Uh, hold on a minute," Tom called after the newlyweds.  "Where is your home?  And do they know what you're doing with their bodies?"

<Anne3> They turned and looked at Tom.  Then Mitsui looked at Toomee who said, "The planet ahead that you were planning to investigate is our home.  And don't worry about them.  We won't do anything they wouldn't."
<Anne3> Tom wasn't so sure about that.

<Carissa> "What you have already been doing is something they wouldn't do. So what would you know about what they do and don't do?" He asked.

<Jemima> "Let me rephrase that.  We won't do anything they wouldn't do if they were us."
<Jemima> Tuvok was quietly ordering the doctor to flood the Captain's quarters with sedative gas.
        <Anne3> (lol     Tuvok to the rescue)

<Anne3> Mitsui gave Tom a quizzical look.  "I don't think you know them as well as you think.  After all, we're in here, and you're out there."  Tom's jaw dropped, again.  He was going to have to recalibrate his betting pools.

<Carissa> Tom was in total and utter shock. Mitsui and Toomee entered Kathryn's quarters.

<Jemima> Tuvok followed them in.  He would have fainted from the shock of the scene, except the gas took effect before he could pass out on his own.  His last thought was that the aliens seemed immune to its effects.

<Anne3> Tom headed back to the bridge, assuming that Tuvok had the situation under control.
<Anne3> Several hours later, when they were in orbit around the M-Class planet, Kathryn woke up to the pleasant sensation of Chakotay's arms wrapped around her.  Mitsui and Toomee were gone.
<Anne3> Her mind was still a bit foggy, but she tapped her commbadge, "Janeway to Tuvok, what's our status?"

<Carissa> "Captain, we are in orbit of the Class M planet we picked up on sensors a while ago. Is everything OK?" Asked Tuvok.

<Jemima> "I believe so, Tuvok," she answered.
<Jemima> "How did he get back up there?" she asked Chakotay.

<Anne3> "Vulcans are discrete," he chuckled, "I'm sure he could tell we were not completely under the control of Mitsui and Toomee.  And besides, he's known about us for a while."

<Carissa> "I'm sure he has. Nothing get's past that Vulcan." He told her. He bent down to give her a kiss.

<Jemima> "What about Tom?" she asked.

<Anne3> "We make him split his winnings with us."
        <Anne3> (the end?)
        <Jemima> (the end!)

<Anne3> The End
 

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